The Zagros Mountains

Hello again. Today we are hiking in the Zagros Mountains. The mountains are very hard to climb but with a tour guide we are surviving and finding our way to the top. The tour guides name is Aban which means waters and he is helping us climb by being in charge of our ropes. We are climbing up the easiest peak because we had no time for training. Also looking at Zard Kuh and Mt. Dena we don't get how someone could climb that. Even though part of the mountains are in Iraq the peak we are on is in Iran. Aban told us a little history about the mountains and he told us that they were formed by the Eurasian and Arabian plate tectonics colliding which we though was cool. Unfortunately earlier today I fell and twisted my ankle but luckily my ankle got better with a little bit of ibuprofen.We stopped at a flat area of the mountain to eat our packed lunch because their are no restaurants up in the mountains and once we finish this blog post we will get back to hiking. We are not sure if we will have to pitch a tent and sleep somewhere on the mountain or if we will be able to get back down by sundown. The two of us really hope that we are able to get back by sundown and Aban said that we can if we try so we are going to put all our effort in to it and hope that we make it. We got to continue to climb.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagros

Claire